What is it with the Chinese media and monkeys?

Maybe it’s the fact that they can’t get any real news past the censors but it’s beginning to look like the Chinese media has an unhealthy obsession with monkey stories. You’ll remember how they recently wrote about the Taliban arming armies of killer monkeys.

Well, now they’re claiming that during an explosion and fire at a plastics factory, a good Samaritan monkey (Simianaritan?) picked up a puppy and high tailed it out of the danger zone.

You know what’s coming next…

Well, alright, it looks like maybe it wasn’t the Chinese media that made the claim about the monkey but was rather a twitter user. Still, I like the story better my way so I’m going with that…